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 Posix on Symbian
This has
been achieved by supplying a new framework of POSIX C APIs for use by
both C and C++ programmers. The new APIs are packaged into industry
standard libraries - libc, libm, libpthread and libdl - and are tightly
integrated with Symbian OS to optimise performance and memory usage. In
addition, an updated tool chain will further reduce migration effort.
"Symbian smartphones are
becoming increasingly powerful, and it is now realistic and desirable
to migrate desktop and server code onto mobile devices, opening up
exciting possibilities and attracting differently skilled developers to
the Symbian ecosystem", said Jørgen Behrens, executive vice-president, marketing, Symbian. "With P.I.P.S., Symbian further demonstrates its commitment to open standards in the industry."
POSIX support is a natural step for Symbian
which will allow an ever increasing number of popular desktop
middleware and applications such as web servers and file sharing
software as well as applications based on other mobile operating
systems to be easily ported to Symbian OS. With over 100 million
Symbian smartphones in the market, P.I.P.S. makes it even more
compelling for developers to target Symbian OS.
"P.I.P.S. is part of Symbian’s ongoing investment to enhance the development experience on Symbian OS," said Bruce Carney, head of developer marketing, Symbian. "Native
Symbian C++ continues to offer the richest set of APIs for smartphone
functionality, with Symbian also enabling familiar frameworks, virtual
machines and run-time-environments such as POSIX, Crossfire, Java,
Python, Flash and OPL to help move any developer onto the market’s
leading and richest mobile OS. In addition, the market momentum for
smartphones is growing quickly, making it even more attractive to move
to mobile and Symbian OS."
Commenting on the announcement’s implications for developer productivity, IBM Software Group’s Dr. Michael Karasick, Director of Development, Client Platforms and Technologies, said, "Supporting
open standards such as a POSIX layer for Symbian OS is a key part of
our commitment to our customers. Using POSIX, IBM developers are given
a simplified approach to porting customer solutions across a variety of
platforms, now including Symbian OS, which is a very important platform
for us."
A beta version of P.I.P.S. will be available
for Symbian OS v9.1 and above as a downloadable .SIS file from the
Symbian Developer Network http://developer.symbian.com/. by the end of Q1 2007.
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